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Wessley Evelyn [Female] b. 28 AUG 1912 West Kewaunee, WI - d. 4 JUN 2013 Kewaunee, WI
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Submitted by Bob BlahnikEvelyn Pribyl (1915 - 2013)
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Guest BookPribyl, EvelynEvelyn Pribyl, age 97 of Kewaunee died on Tuesday, June 4, 2013 at Emerald Shores Assisted Living. She was born on August 28, 1915 in West Kewaunee to the late John Jr. And Anna (Janda) Wessely. She married Edward Pribyl on February 28, 1933 and he preceded her in death on August 15, 1956.Evelyn worked most of her life at Leyse Aluminum Co. And then Vollrath Corp. until retiring. She was a lifelong member of Holy Rosary Church. She enjoyed polka dancing and rummage sales.Survivors include her daughter-in-law: Joan Pribyl, Algoma; one granddaughter: Debbie Paul and friend, Gregg, DePere; four great grandchildren: Jason Paul, Sara Paul, Michelle Paul and Jennifer Henricks; four great great grandchildren: Serria and Robert Henricks; Jordon Hoeckendorff and Hailey Paul; nieces and nephews: James (Careen) Pribyl. Greenleaf; Don (Janice) Wessely; Carol Jessen; Shirley (Jim) Schleis; Joy (Mary Jo) Wessely; Russell (Grace) Rank and other nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by one son: Franklin; one granddaughter: Kathy (Pribyl) Dachelet; her sister: Mildred Pribyl; four brothers: Leo, Alvin Willard and Clarence Wessely.Friends may call after 10:00 a.m. Saturday, June 8 at Holy Rosary Church, Kewaunee until the time of services. Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 11:00 a.m. with Fr. William Swichtenberg officiating. Burial will be in Holy Rosary Cemetery.Go to www.buchananfh.com to send condolences or sign the online guest book.The family would like to give special thanks to the staff of Emerald Shores, Unity hospice and Dr. Tom Zenner for the care that they gave Evelyn.Published in Green Bay Press-Gazette from June 6 to June 8, 2013
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Genevieve went to East Twin River Elementary School, the same school her Mother did. She graduated from Kewaunee High School in 1948, where she met her husband, Kenneth. She graduated from Wisconsin State College, now named University of Wisc-Milwaukee, with a BS degree in Lower Elementary Ed. She taught Kindergarten in Milwaukee and Madison, WI.. She lived in Racine, WI where she was active in The Popourri Garden Club, Lighthouse Quilters, and the Assoc os Univiersity women for may years. She also belonged to the Oak Creek quilting guild, Wandering Foot Quilters Guild and the Racine Art Group Quilters.
Her hobbies were golfing, reading, genealogy, quilting, playing bridge, and travelling, but most of all her grandchildren.
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Contributor to this family tree about the Pribyl family with overlaps to Blahnik
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Title: Genevieve Hostak
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Kenneth went to Holy Rosary Catholic School in Kewaunee, WI. He graduated from Kewaunee HS in 1948. He attended Oshkosh State Teachers College for 3 years, enlisted in the US Army. He was discharged in 1953 and returned to the Univ of Wisc in Madison to study Law. He was awarded the purple heart and silver star and servied int he army as a Fisrt Lt.
He graduated fomr Law school at the top of his class in 1957. He retired from the practice of law in 1999 from Hostak Henzel and Bickler. He died 11/11/2005 - pulmonary embloism
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Hi Lori,
I googled Ken Hostak (Gen's husband) and this was one of many articles.BobB 840 Lake Avenue
Racine, WI 53403
262-632-7541 phone
262-632-1256 faxKenneth F. Hostak Memorial
November 16, 2005I would like to share a few memories and observations about Ken Hostak with you this morning.Ken was born and grew up in Kewaunee, Wisconsin in a family with 5 brothers and 2 sisters. His brothers, all of whom were taller and bigger than Ken, played football in high school. Ken was too small for football. But Ken wound up being on the boxing team in high school, fighting in the lowest weight class. I am certain that Ken's early experience in the ring helped bring about that combative spirit that he later brought to service of his clients.Ken was the shortest boy in his freshman class in high school, and Genevieve Pribyl was the shortest girl. As a result, their classmates immediately began projecting them as boyfriend and girlfriend, although Gen says that they did not begin dating until they were seniors. One of the reasons for the delay was that Ken lived in metropolitan Kewaunee, if there is such a place, and Gen lived on the Pribyl family farm which was beyond suburbia, and Ken did not have access to a car.Well, the wedding bells eventually rang out for Ken and Gen, and, this past summer, they celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary.Before their marriage, however, Ken went through a life-changing event. The Korean War was going on, and Ken enlisted in the army. He went through Officer Candidate School and received his commission as a Second Lieutenant. Sent to Korea, he was leading a patrol which was fired upon. Ken received a bullet to the abdomen that lodged near his spine. The
report states:"Although wounded in the initial fire, Lieutenant Hostak directed the reorganization of his dispersed patrol and supervised the evacuation of the wounded. Refusing medical aid, the officer directed mortar fire on the enemy, covering the withdrawal, to the main battle position. Upon reaching
safety, the officer from Kewaunee, Wis., refused aid or evacuation until he was assured other wounded members of the patrol received medical attention and had been evacuated."Because of the location of the bullet, it was never removed. Ken received the Silver Star and the Purple Heart and then went back to battle after recuperating. He was also awarded the Korean Medal of Honor.Ken was a true war hero, but he never bragged about his wartime experience or expressed an attitude that anyone owed him something for it. One of my first thoughts last Friday was that it just seemed fitting that he died on a day when we honor our military veterans.When he returned from the war, after having spent two years in a tent in Korea, with none of the comforts of home, Ken told Gen that she might just as well forget about ever going camping. Gen says they also never ate chipped beef on toast.Having graduated as valedictorian of his high school class, Ken continued to excel academically after returning from service. His studies culminated in receiving his law degree from UW Madison in 1957. He was elected to the Order of the Coif, limited to the top 10% of the graduating class. He was
editor in chief of the Wisconsin Law Review. Since 1914, the law school has kept record of the highest average of its graduates. Ken was number one in his class, with a 94.04 average which was the sixth highest graduating average on record.After graduation, Ken went to work for the firm that became Foley and Lardner and worked with another Milwaukee firm for a time. Then he encountered another life-changing event. He was working on a case
involving a roofing contract for the old Piggly Wiggly store in Shorecrest Shopping Center against Ken Greenquist of Racine. He apparently did such a thorough job that Ken Greenquist wanted him on his side in the future. So Ken Greenquist lured Ken and Gen to Racine in August of 1964 to join the legendary firm of LaFrance, Thompson, Greenquist, Evans and Dye. That firm later became Thompson, Evans, Hostak and Clack. In 1975, a merger took place to form the firm of Thompson & Coates, which later became Hostak, Henzl & Bichler, the most unpronounceable and unspellable name imaginable.I got to know Ken in 1964 when we were both new in town. I was impressed
by his intelligence, the clarity of his drafting, and his tenacity in
representing his clients. As Tim Pruitt mentioned the other day, Ken had
the perfect poker face when negotiating; you had no hint as to where he
was heading.I was even more impressed once the merger of our firms took place in 1975.
Ken was the hardest worker I have ever known. His practice was largely
municipal law involving a number of towns and sewerage districts along
with Racine Unified. The boards of those organizations generally meet at
night, because they are made up of people who work in the daytime. Ken
would typically work a full day at the office. Then, on three or four
nights a week, he would attend a three or four hour meeting of a municipal
board. Then he would work all Saturday morning and part of the afternoon
trying to organize those things that he had not been able to take care of
during the week.Occasionally, we would see the effect of that schedule. For example, Ken
was the president of our firm for many years and presided at our firm
meetings. Sometimes, as we all droned on about something inconsequential
in typically lawyerly fashion, you could see Ken's eyelids close, his head
would drop toward his chest, and he would drift off. Then he would
suddenly snap to, and, amazingly, would not really have missed the point
of what was being discussed. As the leader of the firm, he continually
worked for consensus, and there were very few times that anything actually
required taking a vote of the members. I don't recall any disagreements
with him that went unresolved in 31 years.Ken had a great sense of humor and enjoyed a good joke, even at his own
expense. He was a very appreciative audience for Alan Clack's stories and
had an infectious laugh. One time Steve Smith found a piece of Foley and
Lardner stationery and prepared a phony letter to Ken, in the most stern
terms, demanding that he return something that he supposedly took with him
when he left that firm. After a brief period of uncertainty, Ken realized
that he was the butt of the joke and thoroughly enjoyed it. Upon his
retirement, Tom Devine put together a "roast" of Ken that had Ken laughing
as hard as any of the rest of us.Very early in the existence of our firm, Ken and I received a challenge
from two of our young buck lawyers, Jim Hill and Dennis Barry, who thought
they could beat the two of us at tennis. Needless to say, but I must say
it anyway, Ken and I emerged victorious, and Ken was really excited that
we had beat back the challenge. I was never certain whether it was our
superior play or Jim and Dennis were practicing a form of job security.
But we never gave them a chance to play us again.Ken loved the challenge of municipal law. As he stated in a 1975
interview, "I consider municipal government a constantly growing area, and
you get a chance to control what happens by stopping a problem before it
starts."Well, what does a municipal lawyer do? Over the years, some of the things
Ken was involved in were:Racine Unified strike in 1977 and the litigation that continued for 2
years afterward;
Disputes with the local newspaper over whether the secret meetings laws
were violated;
Annexations;
Contested rezonings;
Restrictions on Vulcan's blasting in the 3 Mile Road quarries;
Caledonia's efforts at achieving status as a village;
Fights on prison locating (Caledonia did not want one, Sturtevant did)
One man's treasure is every one else's junk (Glenn Staege case)
Meetings and more meetingsBut the crowning achievement in his legal career actually occurred after
he had officially retired. (Retirement for Ken initially, by the way,
meant that he wore a sport shirt, came in at 8 and left at 5.) At his
retirement, negotiations were under way among the City of Racine, Mt.
Pleasant, Caledonia, and Elmwood Park regarding the extension of municipal
sewer service to I-94. The lack of sewer at the I had prevented
development of the I-94 corridor in Racine County. Dennis Kornwolf was the
Chairman of the Town of Caledonia at the time, and he, and later Susan
Greenfield, practically insisted that Ken stay on as special counsel for
the negotiations. The negotiations dragged on, and we were telling Ken
that it looked as though he had a lifetime engagement and would never be
able to retire. Finally, an agreement was reached. I am certain that Ken's
presence was essential to bringing the parties together and then drafting
something they all understood and that would be understood 30 years into
the future.When Ken did finally retire, he basically went cold turkey, which is
probably the only way he could retire. He still kept an office at our firm
and was available to consult on municipal matters, and visited the office
on occasion, usually to use our copying machine. Ken had been totally
opposed to having a microwave oven at our offices. After he retired, we
got bold enough to bring one in. Since his office was rarely used, we put
the microwave in that office. I really don't think the microwave in his
office kept him away. I think he was just having too good a time
traveling, playing golf, continuing to learn, and enjoying his family.We miss Ken at the office in a number of ways and not only for his legal
expertise. Most lawyers become lawyers because we are too inept to do
anything else. Ken was our "Mr. Fixit". It was not unusual to see him take
apart some piece of office equipment and get it to work right. Last
Saturday, I was in a real hurry to get somewhere and stuffed too many
pages into the shredder and jammed it. I simply could not get it to work.
If Ken had been there, I have no doubt he would have solved the problem in
no time at all.Ken was devoted to Gen and his daughters and their families. Where they
were concerned, the poker face dissolved, and he was a real marshmallow
and very protective. When the teacher's strike occurred, Ken was
representing Racine Unified. He was very concerned about the possible loss
of a year of his daughters' education. Ken enrolled them at Prairie
School. That action made the front page of the paper, and Ken took a ton
of flak. But that was all right; he was protecting his daughters. When
young men were calling on his daughters, he adopted a different form of
protection. He dropped his voice a couple of octaves, spoke very somberly,
and must have scared the daylights out of them.Karen told me about the time that she had her first date with a young man.
After dropping her off, the poor soul managed to back into the ditch in
front of the house. They proceeded to get Ken out of bed, and Ken got out
a 2 by 4 which he placed under the wheel and helped extricate the
unfortunate young fellow. The next morning Ken muttered that the kid
seemed to be a loser, and Karen never dated him again.Diane told about the time that she was having a Halloween party when she
was in high school. Ken was not exactly thrilled about being a chaperone
to these kids. What they did was put a dress on Ken, with an amply stuffed
bra, and a wig, and he just sat in front of the TV through the whole
party. He was so convincing that all of the kids at the party thought that
he was Diane's grandmother.Mary remembers the time that the whole family was visiting San Francisco
when she was about 4 or 5, and she was afraid to go into the wax museum.
She and Ken waited for the others at Fisherman's Wharf, and he bought her
a shrimp cocktail (which she thoroughly enjoyed and refused to share with
him), and he never tried to coax her to go into the museum. Mary said that
was typical of how Ken would respond to her concerns and those of her
sisters.Ken's drive and his enthusiasm about education certainly carried through
to the next generation of achievers. Karen works as a controller at Ford
and lives in Birmingham, Michigan with her husband, Joe and their
children, Joe, Jr. and Anne. Diane is a pharmacist and lives in Racine
with her husband, John and their children, David and Katherine. Mary is a
patent attorney and lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina with her husband,
Genichi and their children, Taiyo and Seiji. Ken was extremely proud of
his daughters and their families.Ken was a brilliant lawyer, an acknowledged giant in the field of
municipal law. When Racine County was considering hiring counsel for a
project (and actually hired someone else), Supervisor David Retzinger
observed, "The thing you want to do is win the case. I find Ken Hostak to
be a real tough guy. That guy's out to win."Beyond the competence in the law was a solid human being. As Dennis
Kornwolf said at the time of Ken's retirement, "He's a man with probably
the highest degree of integrity I've ever met. And I don't throw those
comments out loosely."That's the Ken Hostak we all know and will always remember. A devoted
husband, father, and grandfather, an outstanding professional, a man of
the highest ethical standards, and a friend.
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From Sharon Gerhardt 1/2014
Note of Interest: Aunt Mayme Rank (Emma's sister) told me that Emma Pribyl was the only sibling born at Cedar Corner.
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Emma's family moved shortly after her birth to Forestville Twp, Door County, and lived a short distance west of Carnot School.
She actually died 3 days sooner than the date stated. Neighbors noticed the lights were on for 3 days and nights prior . Her 3 year old grandson, Robert Jr. was there alone with her. He knew enough to get a loaf of bread out of the drawer and dug into it with his hands.
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Note of Interest: Aunt Mayme Rank (Emma's sister) told me that Emma Pribyl was the only sibling born at Cedar Corner.
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Edward Pribyl owned the John Pribyl farm. In WWII he was drafted into the US Army in which he served about 6 months, because he received a hardship discharge to help run the family farm. He was mechanically gifted. He built the first tractor for the farm, he reconditioned a buick into a "hammer mill" (used to grind grain), and he worked at the Manitowoc Chipyards where he became an excellent welder. The farm was sold to his son, Kevin and Mary Pribyl, in about 1996.
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